The Smoothed Bootstrap Fine-Tuning

Smoothed Bootstrap and Jackboot Sampling Smoothed Bootstrap and Jackboot Sampling

We propose a bootstrap sampling method jackboot sampling This provides more accu rate inferences than ordinary bootstrap sampling better con dence interval coverage and less biased or unbiased standard errors The method is simple to implement We also prescribe a smoothing parameter for use in smoothed bootstrapping using or dinary kernel smoothing The e ect is similar to that of jackboot sampling

The Fine-Tuning Argument

The Fine-Tuning Argument (FTA) is a variant of the Design Argument for the existence of God. In this paper the evidence of fine-tuning is explained and the Fine-Tuning Design Argument for God is presented. Then two objections are covered. The first objection is that fine-tuning can be explained in terms of the existence of multiple universes (the ‘multiverse’) plus the operation of the anthropi...

The Fine-Tuning for Discoverability

Fine Tuning the Breeding Program

This paper was produced by: • George Foxcroft, Canada Research Chair in Swine Reproductive Physiology, and Swine Research & Technology Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta • Ana Ruiz-Sanchez, Susanna Town, Jody Barry, Emma Clowes, and Heather Willis, Swine Research & Technology Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta • Eduardo Beltranena, Murray Pettitt and Jenny Patterson,...

Fine-tuning the brain: MicroRNAs.

The brain is of bewildering complexity and numerous genes and signaling molecules have been described that affect the architecture and functioning of specific neuronal circuits. Recent evidence from genome analysis revealed the existence of a large group of novel RNA molecules with unexpected properties. One such group is called microRNAs, which are small 21-23 nucleotides RNA molecules that ar...